From the Island Owner to the King

Now the ocean in the Pregnant Haizhu Space has become full of life.

Barracuda, tuna in groups, densely packed.

Sting rays hide quietly on the sandy seabed.

Groupers swim around the reef.

Turtles are eating seaweed.

Dozens of dolphins cooperated to prey on the swarms of tuna, which were feasting.

To be on the safe side, Chen Rui did not put creatures higher than the spearfish food chain in the ocean of the Pregnant Haizhu space. If a shark were to eat the spearfish, it would be a tragedy.

Therefore, for a while, a male and a female pair of spearfish became the predatory overlords in this sea area.

Suddenly, a dark shadow appeared in front of Chen Rui's eyes, lying quietly on the seabed like a giant.

Chen Rui was excited for a while and swam over quickly.

Swim to the front and found that it was a huge hull wreck, mottled hull, rusted hinges, crooked masts, cannons buried in the sand, silently recounting the tragic fate of this ship, in the icy cold. , murky waters immersed for hundreds of years.

A small part of the hull is buried in the sand, and the deck and cabin are partially exposed.

This is a Mediterranean-style sailboat. Before the Spanish galleon appeared, it was one of the two most common sailboats in Spain.

This ship was a small, light, jib-mounted merchant vessel, and it was two of these Mediterranean-style sailboats that accompanied the larger 'Virgin Mary' in 1492 on the adventure of discovering the New World of America , they became the most common adventure boats.

Chen Rui was disappointed that the ship's boards were scattered on the seabed, and there was a large hole on the side of the ship.

Obviously, other treasure hunters had already boarded first, and nothing of value was left on board.

But when you think about it, it feels normal.

This sea area is known as the 'treasure tomb' in the world.

For hundreds of years, there have been many treasure hunters who have come here to hunt for treasures. There is such a conspicuous shipwreck on the bottom of the sea that is not covered by sand and sand has long been discovered.

Chen Rui searched carefully for a while in the ship's warehouse.

The harvest of a few Spanish double-column silver circles is estimated to have been left by the sailors on the ship, and missed by the treasure hunters who got there first.

The Spanish double-column silver circle is the Spanish conquest of Mexico from 1519 to 1521, after which a large silver mine was discovered. In 1732, a large number of "double columns" were cast on the spot. In addition,

The Spanish colonies of Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Peru, etc. also cast 'double columns'.

The value of these 'double-column' silver dollars is between 600 and 1,000, which is better than nothing.

After leaving the wreck, Chen Rui continued to search the seabed.

Two months later, Chen Rui had searched most of the sea area previously delineated.

The sunken ship did find a few.

Or it has already been preempted.

Or not of much value, just find some sailors on board carrying Spanish gold and silver coins, gold and silver jewelry, jewelry, and silver tableware for dining.

In Chen Dong's view, this is normal.

Not every Spanish merchant ship is a treasure ship full of gold and silver jewelry,

Most of these merchant ships were loaded with slaves from Spain, as well as coffee, sugar and other goods brought back from South America.

Only a tiny fraction of these were treasure ships laden with gold and silver plundered from South America.

If you find a treasure ship that is full of gold and silver jewelry, but has not been boarded first, it is a great luck, and the value is at least hundreds of millions of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Treasure hunting requires patience, especially underwater treasure hunting.

Treasure hunting is like finding oil, it takes a lot of time, energy and financial resources, but it may not be rewarded.

Luck is very important.

Chen Rui had already prepared for this.

It's not unusual for a treasure hunter or treasure hunt company to spend ten or even decades searching for a wreck.

For example, it took Odyssey 12 years to find the first valuable wreck, the SSRepublic.

Mel Fisher spent 30 years finding the wreck of the Lady Atoka.

However, more treasure hunters spend ten or even decades of time and energy, and hundreds of millions of funds have not achieved anything.

Chen Rui plans to spend half a year searching for this area.

On this day, Chen Rui searched the seabed as usual, and was meticulous. Whenever he saw something that was not a stone, he had to use a metal detector to detect it.

At this time, Chen Rui had already dived to the bottom of the sea with a depth of more than 200 meters, and the limit depth of ordinary submarine diving was only 300 to 400 meters.

Huge water pressure can crush a person.

In addition to underwater detection robots, divers wearing anti-stress suits cannot dive to this depth.

With Fen Shui Jue and Turtle Breath Jue Xiao Cheng's transformed body.

Although Chen Rui felt a little pressure on the seabed of more than 200 meters, for Chen Rui, it was almost negligible, and it did not have much impact on Chen Rui's seabed search work.

More than 200 meters of seabed, there is only a trace of light, very dark, the water is very cold, the surrounding is very quiet, the silence is a bit strange.

Chen Rui wore a waterproof miner's lamp on his head and held a metal detector in his hand.

Walking on the sand and gravel on the seabed is like walking on flat land, walking freely and steadily.

'Di Di~. ’

The metal detector rang.

Chen Rui's spirit was shocked, and his face was filled with joy.

Anyone who repeats the same task over and over again on the 200-meter-deep, cold and dark seabed will feel bored for months in a row.

Now, after hearing the beeping sound of 'Di Di' from the metal detector, Chen Rui's spirit was shaken like Xianle.

Chen Rui crouched down and scraped the sand with his hands, revealing a section of the ship's chord first.

This discovery immediately made Chen Rui exclaimed.

The next discovery made Chen Rui even more excited.

High chord, high poop, low foredeck, flat stern, with a protrusion at the bow, like the ramming angle of an oars rowing boat, where there is an independent gun position.

The hull has a pronounced equilateral trapezoid shape (the sides of the hull slope inward from bottom to top) and this slope extends all the way to the poop.

The aspect ratio is 4:1.

This is typical of Spanish galleons.

The towering bow and stern decks have the advantage of being able to easily board enemy ships when two ships are stuck side by side in war.

The 4:1 ratio of length and width gives the Spanish galleon a speed advantage over other contemporary sailing ships, such as the Clark sailing ship.